From Jim Nauls today...
Stop by Health Education Outreach (HEO) today from 1:30-3:30 to get a free 10 minute massage. Massages are given on a first come, first serve basis so it is best to get here early.
-HEO Staff
Monday, April 20, 2009
Bias Related Incident at Mudd?
From: "Guy Gerbick" <guy_gerbick@hmc.edu>
To: students-l@HMC.Edu, faculty-l@HMC.Edu, staff-l@HMC.Edu
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 2:25:19 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: bias related incident at HMC
During the early morning of Sunday, April 12, 2009, someone chalked a
drawing and words on the wall of the loading area between Hoch-Shanahan
Dining Commons and West Dorm, facing the main Quad walkway. There was a
drawing of a penis and the words "DEMI?" (?) and "MUDD SUCKS D!" A photo
of it is at http://www.hmc.edu/graphics/
was cleaned off this morning.
These graffiti have some parallels with the vandalism that recently
occurred at Scripps and Pitzer, but are also different. Still, the
imagery and words are offensive and can be considered bias motivated.
If you would like to talk about the impact of this event, or the other
graffiti that have been hitting Pitzer and Scripps, you may speak with
me, Bev Chen (our emotional health counselor), Gary Kelly or Angelica
Ibarra (in the Office of Institutional Diversity), or other members of
the DOS or proctor staff. Additionally, 5/7C resources, including the
Monsour Counseling Center, are also available for support.
We have leads on who may have written this graffiti, which we are
following up. If you have information about the people who may have done
it, please let me know.
Guy
Subsidizing the Dodgers? Fight Fights You Can Win
A reader writes in to ask me to comment on the subsidizing of the L.A. Dodgers game. She writes about...
...how SLC are abdicating their obligation to use their money in the interests of the maximum number of students in their distribution of Dodgers tickets? By subsidizing the trip (tickets+transit) down to 5 per person, they are capped at 188 spots. The trip is worth way more than that, and by raising the price to 10 or 12 dollars per person (still subsidized in such a way as to make the Dodgers more accessible to students), they could have many more CMCers get the experience, while not spending as much ASCMC money in the process.I'd like to comment on this, but I just waited in line for what is probably the biggest steal ever -- 5 bucks for a Friday night Dodgers game? Are you kidding me? What kind of fool wouldn't take advantage of that? That's cheaper than a burrito at Chipotle.
Am I hypocrite? Probably. But I have taken a page from the Libertarian Club and from Atlas Shrugged. Try to liberate as much money as possible, preferably the amount you put in and no more, but hey, it's so crooked that you could probably get away with stealing a lot more.
But in all seriousness, you'll have to forgive me. It's not easy to try to reform ASCMC from the outside, I've learned a thing or two: 1) that the incentives are aligned in such a way that I'll never win and 2) that I have better things to do with my time.
But if you're as foolish (or is it principled?) as I used to be, you won't be dissuaded by common sense or by the realization that you're only one person and that democracy is incapable with liberty or fiscal prudence. You can storm the field.
That said, the fiasco of tonight is evident for everyone. I was in line at 10:10 PM. I was near the front of the line, but dozens of people were cutting. Soon there was an incentive for everyone to cut. ASCMC could have organized it a lot better, with tables outside and enforcing the lines. So yes, I waited in line for almost 40 minutes and didn't get tickets.
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